They Laid Me Off the Day My Daughter Was Born. I Never Went Back to a Job. | More Gooder Pod Ep. 04

Daniel walks Andy through his actual career path — the messy version that doesn't fit on LinkedIn.Criminal justice degree. 90+ scores on the NYPD test. A Wolf of Wall Street-style boiler room where managers literally stood on desks and screamed at him to sell. Selling life insurance. An MBA in finance. Financial advising until the company was bought out and laid off every single employee. He found out while he was on hold with HR, waiting to tell them his daughter had just been born.That was the layoff that turned him into an entrepreneur. He never took another job.In this episode:Why he almost skipped college for auto tech schoolThe mindset shift from "make 100K and lock in a pension" to shooting for moreThe side hustles that funded the in-between years — construction with his dad, managing CVS, flipping electronics and Legos on eBayWhy having a blue-collar skill to fall back on changes how you make every decisionThe one regret: not going all-in on the business soonerHow motion — forward momentum, even when the direction isn't perfect — beats waiting for the right momentTwo founders, two completely different paths, same destination.More Gooder is a podcast about building small businesses without taking ourselves too seriously. New episodes weekly.